San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-14
TELEGRAPHIc BREvITIEs.


Charleston reports slight earthquake
shock.
Forest fires raging In Michigan aud
Wisconsin.
Next meeting Of state tiremen will be
st FL Paso.
O'Brien will lecture In Toronto and
order will be maintained.
Railway conductors are holding ses-
sion in New Orleans.
Louisville races continue, but no fast
time Is made.
Balfour will probably tender his res
ignstion as chief secretary for Ireland.
Hsity settles her debt with England
satisfactorily for both countries.
The Colorado river ut Austin has
risen six feet,
French, chairman OF the National Pro.
hibition committee, will stump Texas.
Florida will let the governor nomi-
nate her senator; she cannot elect.
Houston has $50 men at work on the
excavations for her new cotton mills.
Florida legislature is doubling up her
old counties into new ones.
Fort Scott, Kansas, strikes the
strongest flow Of natural gas the state
has yet known.
DIR. Glynn is threatened with ex-
communication II he does not repair to
Rome.
Business is dead at Odessa and bank
ruptcy Is staring the Oldest firms 10 the
face.
Psrnell is 10 very precsrious condi-
tion and is ordered 10 BouInermouth
until Tuesday.
The London Times resumes publica-
ton OF its libels on Psrnell and his
party.
Government will not recommend a
jubilee pardon for parties guilty OF
agrarian crimes In Ireland.
Cardinal Gibbons Ia In London consult
ing with reference to negro missions In
America.
Vice President Potter, OF the g. B. q
q, becomes general manager OF the
Union Pacific.
Fearn & Warden, of Dallas, win the
diamond badge In the Greenvillo state
shoot.
The Hanlan-G audauT race comes OF
on the Pullman, ILL.,, water, on the
30th inst.
The Ocean King, the largest Ameri-
can ship afloat, burned at sea. Crew all
saved, at Port Townsend.
New York health officers seize two
carloads of tainted beef that came from
the west, in refrigerator ears.
North Carolina reports the heaviest
rain for 10 years, near Weldon, with
damaging washOuts.
The Cunarder line is boycotted by the
Irish land league until the Umbria's
captain is discharged.
Keller says Sherman Is the choice of
Ohio for president, and that Foraker will
be next governor.
The Saturday N onday wages cOntro-
Versy in Chicago, leads TO strike
among 10000 workmen.
Jim Jones, colOred murderer, was
hung at Texarkana yesterday, in the
sight Of 1900 people.
Walter I. Maddox is receiver of the
cattle in controversy at Fort Worth, and
which were recently seized in Wheeler
county. Bond $4,000.
Powderly recommends X. Of l.. to
celebrate Fourth OF July and display no
cOlors but the American stars and
stripes.
The government will apply cloture to
the amendments of the coercion bill, TO
the extent Of disposiDg of given num-
Der every day.
Up to adjournment of court on Thurs
day night, not single juryman had
been found in the boodler cases, Chica-
60.
The Omaha foundrymen, cable line
workmen, brick moulders, paper hang
ers, shOvelers and exoavators are all out
on strike.
Dayton, Ohio, feels the effect OF four
hours rain-pour, which swept with a
current four feet deep through the prin-
cIpal streets Of the city. Great damage
to property, but no lives lost.
Advices from Gambia say Saidemstli
has surrendered to the English uncOn-
ditionslly and the French troops have
been Withdrawn from his territory. The
French had occupied Baddiboo after
defeating Saidematli, and the latter had
taken refuge on British territory.